Nitazenes: The ‘New Fentanyl’ Killing Drug Users in Europe

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Nitazenes: The ‘New Fentanyl’ Killing Drug Users in Europe

In March of this year, at a flat in Bristol, UK, life-long heroin user Manny plunged a syringe into his groin, one of the few places he’s still able to reach a vein. “The heroin around here is really shit, it’s been cut with something,” he later told VICE.  Sometimes, those cutting agents dilute the drug’s strength. But recently, a relatively new class of synthetic opioids named nitazenes—which can be up to 300 times stronger than heroin—have fo…